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This July 2013 scene showing U.S. Army troops marching across Afghanistan could soon be replicated all over Syria, once the Pentagon opens up about its need for ground forces to secure Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons

Securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday.

That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in early 2012.

U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S. confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator was using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders.
'The report exists, and it was prepared at the request of the National Security Advisor's staff,' a Department of Defense official with knowledge of the inquiry told MailOnline Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
'DoD spent lots of time and resources on it. Everyone understood that this wasn't a pointless exercise, and that eventually we would be tasked with going and getting the VX and sarin, so there was lots of due diligence.'

The logistical difficulties of bringing Syria's chemical warfare infrastructure under control stands in stark contrast with the text of a resolution passed Wednesday by a powerful Senate committee, and with assurances Secretary of State John Kerry has given committees in both houses of Congress.

He stole defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq and is preparing to do the same in Afghanistan .
He turned Libya into nothing mre than a new training ground for terrorists. He helped destroy the stability in Eygpt by supporting a known terrorist group and assisting them politically to gain power. He ignored the uprisings in Iran and left the protestors to die in the streets without so much as a peep of moral support and now he wants to start something he hasn't the balls to finish in Syria. We have elected a worthless clown.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.